Complexity and the Art of Public Policy : : Solving Society's Problems from the Bottom Up / / Roland Kupers, David Colander.

Complexity science-made possible by modern analytical and computational advances-is changing the way we think about social systems and social theory. Unfortunately, economists' policy models have not kept up and are stuck in either a market fundamentalist or government control narrative. While...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 3 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • PART I. The Complexity Frame for Policy
  • Chapter 1. Twin Peaks
  • Chapter 2. Government With, Not Versus, the Market
  • Chapter 3. I Pencil Revisited: Beyond Market Fundamentalism
  • Chapter 4. The Complexity Policy Frame
  • PART II. Exploring the Foundations
  • Chapter 5. How Economics Lost the Complexity Vision
  • Chapter 6. How Macroeconomics Lost the Complexity Vision
  • Chapter 7. Complexity: A New Kind of Science?
  • Chapter 8: A New Kind of Complexity Economics?
  • Chapter 9. Nudging toward a Complexity Policy Frame
  • PART III. Laissez-Faire Activism in Practice
  • Chapter 10. The Economics of Influence
  • Chapter 11. Implementing Influence Policy
  • Chapter 12. Laissez-Faire Activism
  • Chapter 13. Getting the Ecostructure of Government Right
  • PART IV. The Lost Agenda
  • Chapter 14. Getting the Ecostructure of Social Science Education Right
  • Chapter 15. The Lost Agenda
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index